Monday, January 19, 2015

130,000 Pages of Classified UFO Files Available on the Black Vault, Nothing on Roswell

The
United States government just declassified 130,000 pages of UFO
reports collected during the Air Force's Project Blue Book (which
also ran under Project Sign and Project Grudge) investigation into
UFO sightings, which dated from 1947 to 1969. The documents are now
available online at the Black
Vault. For the Black Vault's founder, John Greenewald, this is
the culmination of nearly 2 decades of Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

Before
getting too excited and into Roswell (and where the files could have
gone), it is important to realize that many of the UFO reports can be
easily explained in a down to Earth manner. Misidentified aircraft of
Earthly origin can account for a large number of the night sightings.
Other common explanations for UFO sightings include meteors,
satellites, and planets. However, of 12,618 reports collected during
the 22-year Air Force investigation, 701 remain classified as
'unidentified.'

Now, onto Roswell.

A
complicating factor in the goal of releasing UFO files to the public
(and the fact that the released files rarely contribute any new
information to UFO enthusiasts' investigations) is that many may have
been transferred
away from the military and to private corporations in
order to take the information out of the public domain and into the
realm of corporate secrecy where FOIA requests cannot touch them.
Sound crazy? Consider this: this theory does explain why so many
document requests under FOIA come back with the government saying
that the files do not exist in their records, which is the response
all the FOIA requests on Roswell inevitably result with.

Bottom
line: either the government is lying or the records have indeed been
moved.

While some hail the release of the documents as
hopefully the beginning of a new era of government openness, others
see it only as a few tantalizing tidbits to keep the public occupied,
especially considering that the newest of these reports are 46 years
old. Besides this, the tendency of governments all over the world to
downplay, not investigate, and even ridicule the idea of UFOs and
alien contact lends more fuel to the conspiracy fire. If UFOs/aliens
are not real, why are governments so secretive about the topic?